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Poll Books
Poll books are a primary source for the understanding of voting behaviour in
the past. They generally contain the voting preference of individual voters
along with their address. Different constituencies contain varying levels of
information. The History Data Service holds a small selection of digitised poll books which
are listed below.
Available from the History Data Service
Clicking on the links below will take you to the relevant catalogue record from
the UK Data Archive catalogue.
| Study No. |
Title |
| SN
4609 |
Parliamentary Poll Books of Colchester, Essex, 1806, 1807 and 1812 |
| SN
4241 |
Name, Residence, Vote and Occupation for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield
General Elections |
| SN
4170 |
Parliamentary Poll Books of Sandwich, Kent, 1831-1868 |
| SN
3908 |
Westminster Historical Database, 1749-1820; Voters Social Structure
and Electoral Behaviour |
| SN
3179 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Lynn Regis Poll Books, 1822 |
| SN
3178 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Northampton Borough Elections, 1768-1796 |
| SN
3165 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Guildford Poll Books, 1865 and 1866 |
| SN
3038 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; St Albans Poll Books, 1820-1830 |
| SN
3036 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Essex Poll Books, 1702-1722 |
| SN
3035 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Hereford Poll Books, 1734-1764 |
| SN
3034 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Worcester Poll Books, 1841-1857 |
| SN
3033 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Shrewsbury Poll Books, 1814 |
| SN
3032 |
Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Totnes Poll Books, 1837-1865 |
| SN
2948 |
Ashford, 1840 - 1870 : a Socio-Demographic Study |
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977 |
Voting Behaviour in Guildford, 1790-1868 |
Further Information
For further information on poll books read: John Vincent, Poll books. How
Victorians voted (Cambridge, CUP, 1967) or S. W. Baskerville, P. Adman,
and K. F. Beedham, 'Manuscript poll books and English county elections in
the first age of party: a reconsideration of their provenance and purpose',
Archives, 19 (1991), 384-403. A detailed list of poll books has been
published. See John Sims, A handlist of British parliamentary poll books
(Leicester, 1984). A list of additions to this guide will shortly be published
in the journal Parliamentary History.
Links
From weaver to web: online visual archive of Calderdale history
Freeholders' Records
Site
PRONI's freeholders project entailed the digitisation of c.5,500 sheets from pre-1840
Registers and Poll Books, and the provision of an index of names linked to the high-quality
digitised images.
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Finding resources
All of the History Data Service resources can be found in the following way:
Via the UK Data Archive Data Catalogue which enables users to search
for historical data held at UK Data Archive. Data can be browsed by theme via a search by Subject Keyword, as an search option
in the Data Catalogue. Users can also browse
all data held by ESDS by subject category.
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